Hi,
Anyone on here using Charter Telephone VOIP service? I've currently
got Verizon, but the wife hates it because our phone lines get flaky
all the time, esp when it rains.
So I'm thinking to save money and combine all my stuff onto Charter.
I've already got High Speed internet and regular old cable. Not wild
about Digital Cable since I'm happy with Tivo and I don't want yet
another set top box to have to deal with...
So, any horror stories about Charter Phone VOIP quality and service?
Thanks,
John

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Contact:
Teri Pirozzi
Technical Recruiter, Software Business Systems
tpirozzi(a)sbsystems.com
Office 781-721-1000
Production Support - Linux Systems Administrator Newton, MA
The Production Support - Systems Administrator will hold the primary
responsibility for the Production Environment (PE) from both a strategic
and tactical perspective. The focus will be on the OS and application
layer. The PS-SA will be heavily involved in project related work as
well as break & fix interrupt driven work as it pertains to the
Operating System and application. The PS-SA will maintain an on-call
escalation position supporting the Operations Center analysts in a 7X24
configuration. They will carry the overall responsibility of ensuring
that consistency, stability and good health exists at all times within
the production environment. PS-SA will be responsible for accepting
production code from QA and rolling it into production. The PS-SA will
work with analysts and development to trouble shoot and solve issues
with production code.
Responsibilities
? Architect, install, and maintain production systems.
? Maintain and implement servers and storage devices, disk layouts, file
system configurations, and OS to support specific applications.
? Troubleshoot and resolve OS and application issues within the
production environment.
? Responsible for documenting configurations and writing deployment plans.
? Responsible to train and support junior analysts.
? Testing, scheduling and stalling patches and upgrades.
? Testing, developing, and maintaining server and OS Layer standards
throughout the production environment.
? Own and operate all support related utilities and software.
? Be responsible for a series of reports on a daily, weekly, monthly and
quarterly basis.
? Prototypes and certifies standard hardware, operating systems, storage
and third party applications to support the production environment.
? Review third party or open source technology as needed and apply to
the production environment as appropriate.
Experience
? BS degree, and 7 plus years experience preferred.
? 5 years of Linux administration experience, preferably Red Hat or
similar knock off (CentOS).
? Languages: Shell scripting experience necessary, Perl preferred.
? Should have experience installing, monitoring and maintaining
applications in a 7x24 production environment.
? Should be familiar with standard networking protocols.
? Experience within a start-up environment is preferred.
? Ideal candidate would be motivated and able to assume team lead role
should the opportunity arise.
Requirements
? Able to work independently and come up to speed quickly on new
technologies.
? Team player who exhibits good communication and interpersonal skills.
? Ability to thrive within a team environment.
? Ability to document standards and implementation of new technologies.
? Must be customer focused / strong interpersonal skills.
In the best of all worlds the right candidate would: 1) be close to guru
level in Linux. 2) need to be completely hands on. 3) have experience at
a high volume internet site. 4) know pretty much all there is to know
about web servers, DNS, mass e-mails, content delivery, disaster
recovery, general internet operations.
Contact:
Teri Pirozzi
Technical Recruiter, Software Business Systems
tpirozzi(a)sbsystems.com
Office 781-721-1000
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org)
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393)
Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ
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All of the meetings for 2008 have been scheduled and are on wlug.org
(via the WLUG Meetings link at the top of the page). No topic has
been announced yet for this meeting.
January 17, 2008 – Thursday
Access Grid Room
Lower Wedge
Morgan Hall
7:00 PM
Topic: TBD
Finally a question on this list I can answer. :-)
-James
>
> Hey... Any idea when the next meeting is going to be and what it's going to be about?
>

I have an XO laptop and might even go to my very first WLUG meeting (after having been on the mailing list for a couple of years.)
I would also like to see how the mesh networking looks in action.
Howard White
Hudson

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HI Everybody,
The topic of this upcoming meeting will be the XO laptop from the One
Laptop per Child project. I'll lead the discussion with a demonstration
of the hardware and software features of the laptop.
If you have an XO laptop, please bring it, as I haven't yet had a chance
to try out the mesh networking, and it would be fun to try in a live demo.
Remember: Thursday, Jan 17th, 2008, 7:00 PM on the WPI campus in
Worcester, MA USA, in the Access Grid room on the ground floor of Morgan
Hall (ok, its the wedge between Morgan and Daniels).
Afterwards, we'll head out of pizza at a restaurant chosen by the group.
See ya there,
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org)
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393)
Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ
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I understand that my laptop is old. Every time I've upgraded Red
Hat/Fedora, I've liked the new system until Fedora 8. I didn't always
upgrade. I skipped Fedora 7 since the live CD didn't boot on my
laptop but Fedora 6 ran great. Fedora 8 is a dog with my small amount
of memory (256M). I'm thinking I'll buy more memory but it
disappoints me that Fedora runs poorly with 256M. (I would buy a new
laptop but I'm just not impressed with the current offerings.)
Dennis Payne
dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com